EWELL,
WILLIAM HENRY, M. D., of Jersey City Heights, N. J., was born in the
city of New York, on the 19th of February, 1837.

His Father, Reverend
Daniel Newell, well known as the editor of several leading periodicals,
dying while he was quite young, his mother removed to Frederick, Md.
(that being her native city), placing him under the guardianship of his
uncle, Dr. Albert Ritchie, a distinguished physician of that locality,
from which association in early life, he most likely acquired a fondness
for the life of a medical man.

He was prepared for
college at the oldest and best known school in New England, Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass. He finished his academical course at Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa., and then commenced his medical studies in the
office and under the tutelage of the renowned surgeon, Professor Nathan
R. Smith, of Baltimore.

After being elected by
the Faculty of the University of Maryland a resident student of the
Baltimore Infirmary, he resided in that hospital until he had completed
his first course of medicine, then taking his second course at the
University of Pennsylvania, he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine
in the Spring of 1859, The period between this date and the war was
spent in travelling, and in the study of disease in different hospitals.
Arriving in Baltimore, Md., the day after that memorable riot at the
commencement of the war, and being an advocate of "States
Rights," he remained with the crack regiment of Baltimore, -the 5th
Maryland Guards (of which he was a member) until their disbandment, and
the removal of the majority with their armory to Virginia on the night
that General Butler with his command took possession of the city of
Baltimore.

Shortly after his
arrival in Virginia he was commissioned a surgeon, and served the
Confederate States in that capacity with honor and distinction until the
close of the war, when he settled in his present home. After close and
careful investigation of the principles of homopathy, he became
convinced that they were the true means of success in treating disease.
And the success that has attended his thorough study of the system is
attested by his large list of patients and a host of friends. He is a
member of the American Institute of Homopathy, an officer of the New
Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and a member of
the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, of the Jersey City Dispensatory.